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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added
Imberman, Scott A. - 2013
Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …
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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2021
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...
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Housing Environmental Risk in Urban Areas : Cross Country Comparison and Policy Implications
Chiarini, Bruno - 2018
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
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Price and Quantity Effects of the German Real Estate Transfer Tax
Petkova, Kunka - 2017
This paper analyzes the tax effects of the German real estate transfer tax (RETT). While the vast majority of single-family houses in Germany are owner-occupied, apartments are usually held by private and incorporated investors. For this reason, we conducted a regression analysis to determine...
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House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices
Stroebel, Johannes - 2015
We use detailed micro data to document a causal response of local retail price to changes in house prices, with elasticities of 15%-20% across housing booms and busts. Notably, these price responses are largest in zip codes with many homeowners, and non-existent in zip codes with mostly renters....
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Supply Restrictions, Subprime Lending and Regional US House Prices
Anundsen, André K. - 2015
With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust...
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Social Networks and Housing Markets
Bailey, Michael - 2016
We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from...
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852